Raptor Engineering dedicating resources to KVM on PowerNV + KVM CI/CD

[Alex Williamson]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 13:47:50 -0600
Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio at raptorengineering.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just wanted to check in and let the community know that Raptor
> Engineering will be officially dedicating development resources towards
> maintaining, developing, and testing the existing Linux KVM facilities
> for PowerNV machines.
> 
> To this end, we have developed a publicly-accessible CI/CD system[1]
> that performs bi-hourly automated KVM smoke tests on PowerNV, as well as
> some more advanced tests involving PCIe passthrough of various graphics
> cards through VFIO on a POWER9/PowerNV system. Access can also be
> provided upon request to any kernel developers that wish to use the test
> system for development/testing against their own trees.
> 
> If anybody has any questions about the test system, or any insights
> about outstanding work items regarding KVM on PowerNV that might need
> attention, please feel free to reach out.

Hi,

What are you supposing the value to the community is for a CI pipeline
that always fails?  Are you hoping the community will address the
failing tests or monitor the failures to try to make them not become
worse?

I would imagine that CI against key developer branches or linux-next
would be more useful than finding problems after we've merged with
mainline, but it's not clear there's any useful baseline here to
monitor for regressions.  Thanks,

Alex

> [1]
> https://gitlab.raptorengineering.com/raptor-engineering-public/kernel/kernel-developers-ci-cd-access/linux/-/pipelines/1075